Stéphanie Halfon

Maggy lives alone in a palatial home where she packs up boxes all day long. The moment has come for her to finally leave. Leave the gilded prison where she's lived for years under her ex-husband's yoke. Now, the kids are grown up and Maggy has received notice to leave the premises. She's never worked; she has no right to anything.

Etel, a 9-year-old girl who lives in the Hassidic community in Paris, gets her period for the first time. Myriam, her mother, finally looks at her as if she were a woman. Etel is blessed, until she finds out that in her religion, women are considered impure when they have their period.